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CES 2014: A Bedbug Detector that Looks Interesting but has Detractors (Video)
This is a slightly puzzling product. To begin with, Christopher Goggin, shown as the inventor of the Electronic Dog Nose (as featured in Popular Science) may not be the actual inventor, at least according to some of the comments attached to that 2011 Popular Science article. Yet other comments on the same article claim that the unit Goggin supposedly ripped off is totally different from his, and doesn't work, while his does. A report (pdf) on bed-bugs.co.uk says the device "...clearly fails to perform to the manufacturers specification and procedures." Goggin's badge at CES showed his company affiliation as Datt Solutions Group, but Datt's website did not mention him as of Jan. 21, 2013, several weeks after CES 2014 closed. A New York Real Estate blog is skeptical, as are others. Goggin also claims to have a laser device that will kill the bedbugs you find. It sounds great. But a person who prefers the tried and true to new products that may or may not work might want to use old-fashioned, all-natural Diatomaceous earth, which kills not only bedbugs but other insect pests, and costs very little compared to most other methods. If that method doesn't work, then it may be time to try dogs, lasers, and other ways to find and kill bedbugs, which have been spotted everywhere from luxury hotels to housing projects, even in taxicabs and movie theaters.
The summary read like random words in a blender
I think some of the infinite monkeys have knocked off early today
The title leads me to think this is a video about a bed bug detector. The copy in the post goes on and on about where someone worked, or claimed to work, and what their website said...
Please edit copy and try again.
paul reinheimer
i lasered the bedbugs, things got out of hand, there were mosquitos & fruit flies too... sorry
this is a slightly puzzling summary.
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Is this the MPAA? Is this the RIAA? Is this the DMCA? I thought it was the USA!
A report (pdf) on bed-bugs.co.uk says the device "...clearly fails to perform to the manufacturers specification and procedures."
Obviously, the device is running buggy firmware.
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Or is this another Luddite product that fails to account for the fact that computers got better?
Greatest bedbug detector and eliminator in the world:
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Turn six of them loose in your house and you'll never see another bug again.
Nobody wants to stay in a hotel to sit in a movie theatre with yellow brown dirt everywhere. Depending on the size and wattage the laser idea could quickly disinfect rooms without leaving a mess. Or a portable one could run through once a week or so.
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So he has a mechanical nose to detect them, and he has a point-and-shoot laser to kill them. Neither of those are a good idea.
First of all, the detector. This one's the better of the two ideas. If it can do all that a dog can do, then it's probably worth it for someone uber-paranoid or in a high-risk environment. But it's 3-4 times the price of a dog visit, so someone who just wants a quick check around the apartment is better off with the dog. And that's still with the big IF it can do it as well as a dog.
Oh, and his worries that a bug-dog will jump all over your furniture or eat poison are ludicrous. They're highly trained professionals, like their handlers. Not quite police-dog level, but close. A bug-dog that wrecks the place or eats poison will not be a bug-dog for long.
Next topic - the laser. First of all, his statement about industry-standard insecticides is wrong. Only some exterminators still use pesticides for bedbugs; the others use heat. If they do use pesticide, there are new ones out there that are extremely potent and will not likely need to be reapplied. But the go-to treatment now is heat, and they do it in a much more effective way than this dumb laser. Bedbugs want to survive just like any other living creature - they will run away from a targeted blast of heat, and they'll run someplace the laser can't reach them, like inside the walls (if they weren't there already, which they probably were). Effective heat treatments raise the entire interior temperature of your apartment/house above bug-lethal temperatures. There is no escape.
Don't buy from this guy. He knows a little about what he's talking about, but his solutions are the wrong solutions. If you think you have bedbugs, contact a professional pest control operator. They are extremely difficult to kill, and you will often only make the infestation worse if you try to DIY it.
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It works. It clogs exoskeleton joints and sucks moisture out of them. It's completely and absolutely harmless for you, babies, pets, etc - it's a very pure, fine dust.
At the end of a hard day I just can't wait to rest my weary body on a bed dusted in diatomaceous earth.
But seriously, I'm no princess laying on a stack of mattresses here, but if I feel so much as an abandoned eyelash rolling around under me in bed I freak out and frantically swish it away.
Fill an old coffee cup with ten tablespoons (150 grams) of sugar, two tablespoons (30 grams) of yeast, and one and a half quarts (one and a half liters) of water, and put it in the middle of an upturned dog bowl.
Voila! You have just made a bedbug detector that beats others on the market and is much cheaper.
This do-it-yourself (DIY) device to trap bedbugs was created by Narinderpal Singh, Changlu Wang, and Richard Cooper from Rutgers University in New Jersey. It does not kill the bugs, but it can alert homeowners to infestations at their earliest stages, when the bugs are more easily exterminated.
Nuke 'em from orbit.
A bag cost nine bucks at a the farm store. Its not a poison. Its a FDA approved additive for livestock feed. It is composed of fossilized diatoms. Works well on fire ants also. Doesn't really kill them all, it just encourages them to move on. It will get rid of many small insects.
Or does anyone else feel itchy after reading the summary?
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bedbug trap invented in New Jersey
figures.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Per companies a friend of mine contacted when they had a sudden infestation in a single bedroom, the only way to kill bedbugs (as of 2013, when it happened) was to seal up the room and literally bake the space at a really high temperature, for a day or two (I don't recall the exact timeframe, but it was substantial and sounded expensive, energy-wise.)
That process kills the bugs, larvae, and eggs - everything. Nothing else is guaranteed to work - especially because of the really long gestation time of the eggs (you may think they're gone but then they pop up again months later.) The process worked for the friend, and they haven't had a problem since.
It's too bad we don't have something as effective as DDT was that also won't do as much collateral damage.
Ugh it hasn't been "several" weeks since CES closed. My company was there so I know it ended Jan 10. Let's do some grade 1 math: Jan 21 (when this post was written) - Jan 10 = 11. Several is definitely plural, so you'd need at least 14 days. 14 > 11.
Lasers don't cause permenant scarring in your lungs if you breath them in. Diatomacious earth can. So yes lets all use natural products and bleed in our lungs.
The thing with diatomaceous earth is that it gets in the air easily and can hurt your lungs. I'd rather use kidney bean leaves, which have little hooks to catch their legs.
...neither of which involve any sort of antenna stuck in the side of a Walkman.
The first is a vacuum cleaner with a HEPA filter. Moves the little bastards like you wouldn't believe.
The second is a liberal spraying with a little cocktail of my own design: it consists of a few drops of clove oil, a quantity of organic solvent, and water. Kills anything with more than four legs stone dead instantly, doesn't aggravate my lung condition and doesn't smell like someone just fumigated the place. One treatment every two months, and I'm gravy.
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Had a friend who had these. Nothing they tried worked.
I found some sticky pads on the web (MUCH cheaper at farmer stores apparently).
Put one under each bed leg.
Problem solved very quickly.
Also tried disposable plastic containers filled with Talc under each leg. That stopped the biting but didnt' kill the bugs.
We were amazed by how many other bugs got caught on the things.
Spiders-- silverfish-- doodle bugs-- no roaches so that was nice.
Anyway recommend them. They will mess up carpet tho so you would need to put something under them if you have carpet.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
I wonder if one can use a microwave oven with the door removed (and of course with the safety switch bypassed), to fry bugs.